| New online magazine now accepting writing/art submissions! |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|06:09 pm] |
(Posted with permission)
Introducing
an online magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy with a twist
Crossed Genres is a new online magazine inspired by an altered version of the Genre Challenge (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) genrechallenge).
Every month, Crossed Genres posts a new genre. Writers and artists have one month to submit stories and art that combine the chosen genre with some aspect of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy. All submissions are considered for publication (read the submission guidelines.) Crossed Genres will also contain interviews, and articles about the current genre, SF/F in general and the craft and business of writing. The Magazine is free! Please sign up to get the mailing list!
We also have a growing list of writer-related links (suggest a new one!), forums discussing all aspects of writing, and more!
So please visit the website, and sign up for the mailing list! The first genre has been posted and is accepting submissions for Issue #1, to be released December 1. Please consider making a submission! |
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[Sep. 17th, 2008|11:05 am] |
I'm writing some epic Jasperfic from the Twilight universe. It's not sappy, it's not cliche, and it's not according to Meyer's style or lack thereof at all.
Mostly it's a kid stuck in a war two thousand miles away from home, and all he can think about is getting himself--and the men assigned to his command--through it alive.
I really need someone familiar with the Civil War, the 1860s, or the Southern dialect from that time. I've done my research; it's as much an original historical piece as it is loosely based fanfiction. I would just really like it if someone would read through my chapters and point out oddly-sounding phrases and confusing descriptions.
I don't want to post it here for fifty people to glance over and pass up, I just want one or two willing betas who will work through the entire thing with me and help me out. If you're interested, give me a holler. If you know someone else who might be, give them a holler. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance! |
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[Sep. 15th, 2008|12:32 am] |
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[[I found this place while reading through various lj comms, and this sounds like an amazing idea. :) Soo... I offer up this story.
It's Twilight, but please don't let that scare you away. :) It's not purple-sparkle love, really.
Title: The Disadvantages of Sleeping with a Werewolf
Fandom: Twilight
Pairing: Jacob and Bella
Rating: PG
Summary: Bella discovers some of the downsides to sharing her bed with a werewolf.
Notes (aka, things to keep in mind and things to fix:
First Twilight story ever. Is it in character?
Check for grammar, please and thank you. I have issues with it.
Fluff is not my thing, and I feel like the ending is a bit to sticky sweet. Tips to make it better?
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[May. 15th, 2008|04:28 pm] |
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I'm trying to edit two poems for a creative writing class, but I'm not quite sure where to go. They're supposed to be at least 15 lines long, and I'm having a bit of a hard time with that. I'm looking for help in pretty much everything, especially getting it to make sense/not be boring or embarassing. I think I need the most help with the second one.
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[May. 5th, 2008|06:37 pm] |
Hi there, I've just stumbled onto this community and think that the idea is wonderful. I bring with me one poem and one set of song lyrics (if song lyrics are allowed) all ready for some crit.
( Click here ) |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|06:02 pm] |
I drive through traffic in a grey sky,
there is paper in my wastepaper bin
like yesterday.
Lately, time is like the mild cold between seasons.
There is nothing to do but continue,
keep driving every morning and every night.
I know,
I know, like the taut strings of an optimistic violin
anticipate the symphony.
But the conversations have faded into the past
and now is the long silence of waiting, in the hum drum.
This time between the last adventure and the next
feels so wasted,
and alone. |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|12:37 am] |
First of all, I just have to say, I adore the name of this community, because everytime I see it, I think of brutal critters as in viscious wild animals. :3 And that imagery, when applied to my work, makes me oddly happy. Anyway, here's the poetry to be brutalized.
I recline
watching the stars
waiting for the moon.
I whistle, low and long
but no one comes. |
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[Apr. 30th, 2008|08:45 pm] |
Latey, time is like the mild cold between seasons.
The taut strings of an optimistic violin
anticipating an unknown orchestra.
The long silence in waiting
feels so wasted,
and alone. |
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[Apr. 26th, 2008|09:11 am] |
Hey, I was wondering... I posted two of my OC's bios to oc_analysis and no one gave me any feedback, so I was wondering if this comm accepts horrible Mary Sues.
(if not, just rip up this crappy old story of mine. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3366788/1/I_Pwn_N00bs) |
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[Apr. 24th, 2008|02:52 pm] |
This is my most popular fanfiction.
Therefore, I want it torn to shreds. It can't be THAT good, for Pete's sake. Heck, it's not even IC. |
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[Apr. 21st, 2008|01:42 am] |
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So I'm new to this. I mostly write poems lately but sometimes I write fiction and stuff. I don't know that I will post my fiction here seeing as how I'm not so sure that anyone would take the time to read it to critique it. So here's a poem.
Banana Republic Model
( Read more... ) |
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[Apr. 20th, 2008|03:19 am] |
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Ok, so I really need this as I am so looking to improve. If it is trash, please feel free to say and I shall try something different with things! Here we go... I have decided to show this piece:
Flawed to Perfection
It is hard to taint this purity,
to smother it in tattoos that claim permanence,
to release a trapped thought,
only to capture it once more.
Ideas that flirt with their new residence,
only to be viewed and judged,
mocked and critiqued,
then to die a slow death in the future that is their past.
Some make love to the eyes they touch,
whilst others detested with abhorrence,
a result of beautiful vulgarity,
or subjective rejection,
lie nowhere to be exhibited.
Yet,
each curve of your body,
I will make beautiful,
carve to perfection,
whilst the old dwelling recovers,
no longer despondent,
but free from the art of you.
Naked purity can remain so,
but then again,
transparency here is offensive,
a state to be unrecognized.
I taint with kindness,
a tattoo of love, seeping into your fibres,
where you may seem fixed,
yet will never die the death of history,
for you will forever be running in my heavenly garden |
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[Apr. 19th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
I get the feeling that I need this.
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[Apr. 19th, 2008|02:34 am] |
Well hello :) . I r teh latest newb here, please smash my shit to bits kthx.
I'll start with something short to offer up to the brutal gods of crit. It's a tiny little poem, or a poem-fragment (though I honestly don't know where else to go with it). Thanks in advance for the neccessary pain, I'll be returning the favour ^_^ .
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[Apr. 13th, 2008|07:21 pm] |
Please dont hit me if this is not aloud.
I am looking for a beta/possible co-author for a BSG/SGA crossover. Mainly I just need someone to bounce ideas off. I have a series of ideas.
Atlantis chooses new Caprica as the new location for Atlantis, when they get there they find the planet abandoned apart from a few survivors both human and cylon.
Sheppard and co get captured by the humans thinking that they might be cylons. When they escape they take the cylon with them back to Atlantis.
Not quite believing what the cylon tells them, Shepard goes back to new Caprica to try and speak with the human there.
The cylon commits suicide, when he/she realise that the atlantians are doubting his/her story.
Atlantis’s original planet is on the roadmap to earth, the Apollo drops by to check things out and runs into the fleet.
I not to sure where to go from there but this rabid pot bunny wont leave me alone so can someone help me make it into a fully fledged plot. Or send it to plot bunny heaven. |
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[Apr. 9th, 2008|02:54 pm] |
Hello, everyone! This is the first time I've ever posted an actual piece of writing in this group, though I have commented a few times. There is a contest at my college to write a good song in praise of the school, and so I have come up with some strange lyrics. I would love to have some feedback, especially on the rhymes (I hate rhyming! It is so hard to do well!). It's supposed to be humorous, and in a sort of old-fashioned tone, like our actual Skidmore Alma Mater. Some of the jokes may be a little confusing to people who haven't heard of the college. Oh, and a few of the lines are intentionally not quite in the meter. But if you have ideas for lines that might fit better, by all means tell them.
Thanks!
( Skidmore Song ) |
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[Mar. 29th, 2008|06:02 pm] |
I started working again on the poem I posted here a bit earlier. This is what I came up with so far. I don't know quite where to go with editing it next, and I'm not sure if it makes sense. I think it's about PG13.
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[Mar. 27th, 2008|06:11 pm] |
Come on, guys. Don't make me institute a points system where you have to earn reviews on your own stories by reviewing other people's or something dumb like that. Seriously.
Also, I assign each of you the homework to tell at least one writer you know about this place and try to get them to join. More writers = more critters = I don't get annoyed at you for not responding to people.
You'd want them to do it for you, wouldn't you? It's not that difficult. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2008|06:50 pm] |
I'm a newbie, so here goes. I just wrote this poem type of thing that I really need help editing. I'm so glad I found this community.
I'm not sure about the title for this. And the rating....If anybody has a better idea of how to rate this, I'd really like to hear it.
Rating: ???? PG13 language and violence |
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[Feb. 18th, 2008|05:58 pm] |
Untitled
715 Words
Original Fiction
Genre? No idea
I watched a building burn today. It was the most beautiful thing I had seen since I was a child. It was hidden in the distance, lit up with the light of the sunset. I craved for the bus to drive past it, closer, closer. Please, closer. It seemed to be a good omen for my baby boy to arrive today. I am such a silly girl. I know this bus route, I go every day to see my doctor. It does not even go in that direction.
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